Corruption expectations in Brazil 2022

During Jair Bolsonaro's government, the public's expectations regarding corruption worsened gradually. In March 2021, 67 percent of respondents said they expected corruption to increase in the future, the largest share to date, whereas only 43 percent of the people surveyed thought the same in December 2019. In the latest edition of the survey, 17 percent of Brazilian adults claimed corruption would decrease. Moreover, around 54 percent of respondents stated that corruption had increased in Brazil during the first year of the Bolsonaro administration.

Future expectations regarding corruption in Brazil from 2019 to 2022

Characteristic	Corruption will increase	It will decrease	It will remain as is
August 2019	44%	30%	23%
December 2019	43%	28%	27%
August 2020	56%	12%	28%
December 2020	55%	14%	27%
March 2021	67%	8%	23%
September 2021	61%	11%	24%
March 2022	53%	17%	26%

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Release date

March 2022

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Region

Brazil

Survey time period

March 22 to 23, 2022

Number of respondents

2,556 respondents

Age group

16 years and older

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

For the sake of simplicity, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the one in the survey.
The original question posed on the survey was: "Na sua opinião, daqui para frente a inflação vai aumentar, diminuir ou ficar como está? E o desemprego, vai aumentar diminuir ou ficar como está ? E o poder de compra dos salários vai aumentar, diminuir ou ficar como está ? E a corrupção".

This statistic excludes respondents who did not know or did not answer.

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